Readit gets a ginormous 1.2 update for Windows Phone, here’s all that is new

A few weeks ago we told you about Readit, a new Reddit (reddit.com) app for Windows Phone 7.x and 8 devices. We liked it so much, we gave it our editor’s choice for Reddit clients. Even though its 1.0 debut was one of the best we’ve seen for any app, there was room for improvement. As a few of you noted in comments, memory usage and performance could be better.

Luckily, the developers agreed with you as version 1.2 just went live in the Store. Its changelog is either the most detailed we’ve ever seen, or it’s just so massive that the developers should be commended for their hard work. In fact, it’s so big it’s not listed in the app or the Store.

But you’re at Windows Phone Central, so we have all the details…

Readit version 1.2

BUG FIXES

720P/1080P, WVGA, WXGA Splash Screen Images added

Pull To Refresh arrows are now correct colors

Fixed small tile going blank

Fixed front page tile

Fixed an UI anomaly when replying to a message from inbox

[deleted] profile can no longer be accessed

LOADING POSTS indicator will now hide when posts fail to load

Removed some hardcoded colors in the YouTube player

YouTube site will now load instead of our player when listening to music on your phone

The app will no longer crash as often when viewing a profile on a low memory device

NSFW tags are displayed correctly when preview images are turned off

A LOT of Memory & Performance improvements

Battery life improvements

Background tasks will now work properly

Fixed failing to download things from the web when the app is backgrounded

You can now login with special characters in your username/password

IMPROVEMENTS

GENERAL

You can now open the system tray by opening the application bar on any page where there is an application bar but the system tray/time is hidden

Fast App Resuming - WP8 only

You can now close out progress dialogs by using the back button - everything will still be processed

Dialogs - like new post dialog - no longer close when leaving and opening the app again

When loading more comments, they are now ordered and parented correctly

Sidebar no longer shows huge quotes as the content

HOME PAGE

Made the font lighter

Search button added to the subreddits header for an access to quick search

Reordering subreddits is now much faster

Fixed a duplicating subreddit bug - WP8 issue only

There is now a delay before the rate and review reminder is displayed

SUBREDDIT MANAGER

You can now reorder subreddits like you can on the home page

You can now send a subreddit to the top of the list by clicking the up arrow

Subreddit Manager can now be accessed by users who are not logged in

INBOX

You can now compose a message to a user from the inbox

Performance improvements

VIEWING SUBREDDITS

When you upvote/downvote on a comment, the score and vote indicators are now colored to match the reddit.com theme

You can now vote rapidly without vote registration errors

Posts are now cached for 10 minutes. After it is cached, and you view the subreddit, it will load the posts from cache if the cache isn't invalid (invalid after 10 minutes)

Preview images are now loaded for all livememe posts even if the author didn't provide a file extension

An image loading indicator now displays for preview images that are still loading

50% image quality increase for preview images

Subreddit view resumes from the post you exited (if using Swipe view)

Wiki

VIEWING POSTS

You can now edit self text posts

You can now hide and save posts from Swipe view

You can now save images to your phone

All gifs are now handled correctly

YouTube player UI enhanced - much more friendly and sexy now

Subreddit name is now displayed in swipe view like so: i.imgur.com • pics

Fixed a self text rendering issue that could rarely occur

Updated UI for when a windows phone store link is being viewed

NSFW posts are masked before tapped

Landscape for Videos and Images should now work correctly

Smoother animations and swipe action

COMMENTS

Clicking on the post title will now navigate you back to the post content

New Option - Back Button Navigates to Post Content - Off by default - Enable this to use the back button to go back to the post content when viewing comments

New Option - Show Posts That I Already Read - On by default - Disable this to hide read posts in Subreddit View

New Option - Lock Screen Update Interval (in hours) - 1 hour by default - can be set to 1,2,6,12,24,48

MARKDOWN IMPROVEMENTS

Numbered lists are now parsed and displayed correctly

Quotes now render markdown instead of plain text

Spoiler Alerts now have a new style

PROFILE

You can now compose a message to a user from the profile viewing page

ALBUM VIEWER

No longer shows an obtrusive message box when it fails to load an album

New grid index as a first page

Preloads the next and previous images

Smoother scrolling between images

SUBMITTING POSTS

You can now get a post title suggestion (like reddit.com provides) when submitting a URL post. This is only available when you enter a valid URL and the title box is empty.

THEMES

The entire theme is now special cased for light theme

Dark theme is now darker

New fonts, etc. everywhere

A lot of minor theme & UI adjustments

Holy moly. That is by far the most changes we’ve ever seen listed for a changelog. It may be detailed, but it’s that attention to such things that makes this app, in our opinion, one to have on your phone.

Now believe it or not, all is not perfect with version 1.2. There is one known bug that was caught too late in the submission process but will be fixed in a 1.2.1 update (already submitted).

Quick search function has a bug that will get you stuck

So just be aware of that. Otherwise, version 1.2 has just updated on our phone, so we’re going to go ahead and use it for a bit. Once again, if you’re a Reddit user, take a serious look at Readit. It came out the gates running and it looks like they’re just getting started.